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Accepted Paper:
Culture- and Place-making in Fiji's urban informal settlements
Geir Henning Presterudstuen
(University of Bergen)
In this paper I analyse the everyday strategies urban informal settlers in Fiji undertake to secure their livelihoods as processes of culture- and place-making.
Paper long abstract:
In this paper I trace the human economy of informal urban settlements in Fiji. Drawing upon ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in the peri-urban edge-lands outside Fiji's largest commercial centres my discussion focuses on the everyday strategies squatters employ in order to secure their livelihoods at the fringes of the expanding market economy. Rather than analysing these mundane strategies of survival in simple economistic terms, I am interested in them as processes of culture- and place-making, and pay particular attention to human-environmental relations and new forms of socialities that emerge in the heterogeneous, rapidly changing, and unstable context of squatter settlements.